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单词 clew-garnet
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clew-garnetclue-garnetn.

Etymology: < clew n. + garnet n.4
Nautical.
A tackle to ‘clew up’ the ‘courses’ or lower square-sails in furling; cf. clew-line n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes for furling sails
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α.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 Clow garnits, tyes, martlits.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 22 The Clew garnet is a rope made fast to the clew of the saile, and from thence runnes in a blocke seased to the middle of the yard, which in furling doth hale vp the clew of the saile close to the middle of the yard.
1752 Chalmers in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 366 We..had our Fore and Main Clew-Garnets manned to haul up our Courses.
1884 Daily News 7 Oct. 2/5 He went to his station on the clew-garnet.
β. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck ii. 18 Mann the clue-garnetts, let the main-sheet fly.1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 49 The weighty Courses from their arms they cast, Cluegarnets, Buntlines, for the present fast.
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